The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-25


81 beg your pardonl' he said
Making visits, you know on our poor
people and in the hospitals. Mamma has
done 1t since time began. and thinks II part
Of our education.n
30, indeed. And she spends much time
that wayi" he asked.
ave take turns with mamma every other
morning. Thursday is our Flower Mission
day. It is my turn Thursday
"What lovely life,n he said. zone
makes sort OF expiration in that way for
having more than one,s equity in this
worlds blessings, rs we phrase il. What
a lovely nature that finds its pleasure in
such work. And then was sure II was
lcis TO whom Mr.. Poludexter was attracted.
He went on with us little way and as /
booked up at his serious, proud face, and
saw anew his lofty stature and bearing,
couldn't help admiring him little on my
own account, aud wishing II had been Iwho
| had been out with mamma that morning.
and had been found on the angelic business,
But then, reflected, II had been l should
not have had the present bliss Of being in
his society and making my poor little mark
| And / reflected, too, how mamma would
have despised me il she could have known
my state Of mind. And Yeti knew very
well that was not in the least affected by
any personal power of Mr.. Poindexter; ii
was the power OF his bank account, Of his
| position, OF his house in town, OF Poindexter
| Place. that moved me, and that confess
But just as was going ON in this way in
my thoughts we were crossing King street,
on the separate fiag-stones, side by side,
and Mr.. Poindexters head was bent TO hear
what Prim was saying, and | was looking
at them, aud all in heart, beat as you may
say, and before we heard sound, two
hinge horses heads were rearing over our
shoulders, and four great shining forefeet
were paving the air, and Prim had slipped
and fallen and was under them.
never admired any one so much in all
my life-although was too frightened 10
know it--as did Mr. Polndexter ut that
moment, when with his figure flung to its
full height and his face white and fixed, he
grasped those horses by the brides and
held them and forced them back with
perfectly gigantic strength, before the
driver checked them, too, while some one
I'm not sure don't know who-pulled
Prm, who had tainted, out Of the way, and
| was screaming at the top OF my voice.
Then Mr.. Poindexter called coach and
drove home with US, II seemed to me, while
/ was crying over Prim, as fast as the wind
But as fast as we Drove the news of what
had happened was before us, and mamma
was rushing to the door: she was awfully
fond OF Prim, and never made any secret
OF it; Prim was her comfort and her darl-
ing. And when Prin, pale and teary, had
flung herself into mammals arms, and
mamma had exclaimed and kissed her, an d
cried over her as il there wasn't another
person In the world, suddenly she tore her,
self away, the tears still pouring over her
flushed face, her eyes all suffnsed with
them till they looked like melted sapphires
and ran to Mr.. Poindcxter and seized his
hand in both hers. "O,m she cried, "you
have saved TO me the dearest thing l have
How can ever thank youiv
x know a way Mr.. Poindexter muir
INJURED, and murmured so low that guessed
rather than heard what he said.
"Ahag' thought to myself, as helped
Prim, who was considerably torn and
soiled as to her garments, from the room,
NOW am absolutely sure he is going TO
ask mamma for Prim. Itwon't make much
odds about her new spring suits being
ruined by those hoofs; therell be wedding
garments presently. Well, don't care. |
shall have just as good times in Poindexter
Place as il irwere mine; aud I've no doubt
that some Of the Polndexter splendor will
overflow on me from PRINTS pin-money.m
And as afterward, looking from the win
dow, saw mamma and Mr.. Poindexter
pacing up and down the little garden-place
where the grass was just greening and the
crocuses blooming out, made no doubt
that he was arranging with mamma the
settlements TO be made on Prm; all the
surer when, as he was going away, he took
IL. 1. \
have done, and kissed that white hand o {
hers.
THAT settles it, saidI "And I'm sure
Pm relieved, Prim, on the whole, that it,
not who have to play Esther TO Ahasue.
rus. And must say think you'll do
credit TO your position, your such pretty
little pale thing with your black hair and
long eyelashes, aud you'll be. so like lady
of romance in your great big house, and
your big carriage, ana in your evening
toilettes Just a-glitter with diamonds.n
20, that-that isn't the way to look at
it!0 cried Prim. 'I-rm afraid we're
very mercenary for young girls"
I'VE have 10 be- said Iris "Pspa'5
money, now thal gowns and things have
become so much more costly, is just next to
nothing, and I'm tired INTO my soul OF turn-
rug dresses and retrimmng hats:n
'Forall that" said Prim, at isn't pleas
ant TO think you're really after all is said,
doing no more than fixing price on your
self. And-and the fact is, he's very
splendid, and all that, but don't see how
any one can be in loDe with Mr.. Poindextern
II don't know said Iris, hesitatingly
-'Well,n said |, ''as said before, that's
because we never are able even TO get nc
quainted with him. How can people be In
love with person when they're not ac-
quainted; and how can they got acquainted
with person when the fond mamma is al
ways IN the foreground, talking Greek
chOruses, or German music, or Early En-
glsh art, should like to knowl The mo-
meut that any one gets talking 10 us freely,
and we're going on about the other girls or
the favorite actor, or which opera we like
best, or the last fashion, and singing
snatches of the Gilbert and Sullivan and
Oifenbachth things, in glides mamma, like the |
Queen of Hearts after her tarts, and pres.
emily the conversation is all up on the
Browning plane, or the humanities, or poll
tics, and we're no better than dummiesn
what are the humanities, Suef'
"Pshawln
"Well, | do wonder,p said Prim, .what
made mamma so very brilliant; and us such |
duncesr
''You're not. Prim. You're awfully en-
gaging; you know you are, " said Iris. "And
as for us--why, mamma Just absorbed it all |
herself It's queer; she doesn't even say, |
the way Mrs. Freeman does, that she will |
not be thrust aside by ill-nannered young
girls with no experience OF the world, and
nothing but compilations; it never enters
her head that she could be thrust aside;
she just treats us as il it never occurred to
her, and couldn't to any one else, that we
were Of any consequence when she was TO |
be seen, except AS her daughters
IF we could only get mamma to do the
way Nellie's mother does, the way Salle's
mother does, and Hattic's mother, and all |